let's talk to mary fulbrook who is a professor of german history.ining us all day, it is so good to have her expertise. she is usually at the university couege is usually at the university college london. if we can think about today is the anniversary, not just about today is the anniversary, notjust holocaust memorial day, but the liberation of this camp here at auschwitz—birkenau, can you tell us what the red army would have seen when they first arrived. ~ , .., have seen when they first arrived. ~ , .. , arrived. when they came in they found 7000 _ arrived. when they came in they found 7000 survivors _ arrived. when they came in they found 7000 survivorsjust - found 7000 survivors just about, those who were too sick, too ill to walk to be taken on the best match. the nazis had cleared out to ten days earlier, taken those surviving prisoners who are still fated to walk, taking them to other camps. the ones that the red army found were dying, ill, starving, emaciated, and horrific scene, i can hardly imagine it. we have some film footage. an awful

joining me now is mary fulbrook who is a professor of german history at university college london. 0urgital editor paul kirby is also here. mary, i know you arejoining kirby is also here. mary, i know you are joining us throughout here today, can you tell us what the red army encountered when they first arrived. ~ �* , arrived. when the red army came, arrived. when the red army came. they _ arrived. when the red army came, they found _ arrived. when the red army came, they found roughly l arrived. when the red army - came, they found roughly 7000 people who are still alive but they were exhausted and incapable of going on the death march that ten days earlier at the nazis had moved out those who were still capable of walking, many of whom died on the death march, so those remaining were in a terrible state, totally emaciated, sick, close to death some of them, and it was a terrible sight. corpses, the dying... i think the other thing to note is that the other thing to note is that the russians found the remnants, the blown up gas chambers and crematoria, the ruins that the nazis had tr